It’s fair to say that Tottenham Hotspur fans are not impressed with Sky Sports pundit Jamie Redknapp’s opinion that Southampton’s Virgil van Dijk is the best centre-back in the Premier League.

Redknapp, who played for Spurs and briefly the Saints, wrote in his latest column for Sky on the 25-year-old: “Whoever decides to buy him, he is a fantastic player. There's not a better centre-back in the Premier League.”

That left Tottenham fans bemused as they have Toby Alderweireld among their ranks, with their Belgian lynchpin often hailed by most football fans as one of, if not the, league’s best in that position.

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Added to that some reckoned that Van Dijk had been run ragged by Harry Kane during Spurs’ 4-1 victory at St Mary’s in their final game of 2016, although the Dutchman did score Southampton’s goal.

His fellow pundit Matt le Tissier at least acknowledged the Spurs man while talking about Van Dijk when he added: “I like Alderweireld, and those two are the best two centre-backs in the Premier League.”

The Spurs fans and even those from other clubs were not impressed though and made their feeling clear about Redknapp’s thoughts. Here are the best of their tweets.